The Princeton Laptop Orchestra (PLOrk) with special guests Zakir Hussain, Pauline Oliveros, and So Percussion will perform on Tuesday April 4, at Princeton University’s Richardson Auditorium.
PLOrk is a new ensemble of 15 laptop’ers, each seated on a pillow with a 6-channel hemispherical speaker and a variety of control devices. This premiere performance at 8 p.m. will include works by Paul Lansky, Brad Garton, Curtis Bahn and Tomie Hahn, Dan Trueman, Scott Smallwood, Seth Cluett, Perry Cook and Ge Wang, with special guest performances by renowned tabla virtuoso Zakir Hussain, accordian legend Pauline Oliveros, and the hot percussion quartet So Percussion [who will be processing Hussain in real-time].
More information is available here. On a tangent, notice the students are all using Apple Macintosh computers.
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